He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“By that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie. — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction” — James Hogg Copy Share Image
The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness! — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“Will you no come back again? Better loved you’ll never be, And will you no come back again?” — James Hogg Copy Share Image
If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that,… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence. — James Hogg Copy Share Image
It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
